"You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is about the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it."

Dr. Adrian Rogers

 

Makes as much sense as anything else I've heard

 

I think it's kind of saying deal with what you're dealt.

 

So true!!!

 

only two people have ever offered to die for you
jesus christ and the american GI
one died for your soul the other your freedom

 

Which was the more important personage in man's history, he who first led armies over the Alps...or the nameless boor who first hammered out for himself an iron spade?

Laws themselves, political constitutions, are not out life, but only the house wherein our life is led; nay, they are but the bare walls of the house: all of whose essential furniture, the inventions and traditions and daily habits that regulate and support our existence, are the work not of Dracos and Hampdens, but of Phoenician mariners, of Italian masons and Saxon metallurgists, of philosophers, alchemists, prophets and all the long-forgotten trains of artist and artisans.

Thomas Carlyle

 

nothing sways the stupid more than the argument they can't understand.

 

My new favorite is "I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub. Grover Norquist

 

....by Cardinal de Retz

 

I used to have a drug problem, now I make enough money. - David Lee Roth